Haven't blogged here for a while because I've been occupied with another project in High Wycombe http://remappinghighwycombe.blogspot.com. I've been working with my sister carrying out a psychogeographical survey of the town, doing various derives and some straightforward walks. It threw up another link in my 'Autopobiography': writer B.S. Johnson who lived in Claremont Square, Islington and also Gordon Road, High Wycombe. I was reading his novel 'Albert Angelo' for its topographical descriptions of Islington when someone emailed me to tell me that his book 'Trawl' (also in his 'Omnibus') had a long description of parts of High Wycombe.
We capped off the project with a long walk circumnavigating the town in the spirit of Iain Sinclair's 'London Orbital' and Andrew Kotting's 'Galivant' sending back 10 second video clips via mobile phone to an installation in the town centre where they were displayed on a screen. This worked really well and is something we may repeat.
But now I can return to the Islington streets, tracking their moods and atmospheres, and anything else that takes my fancy.
3 comments:
Hello
Here in Poland we have like your psychogeography. In my town "Elblag" we have one island called "Wyspa Nowakowska" and I have write one poem called "Stacja Pomp Numer cztery" (pumping station number four)
I will show this poem to you and join the psychogeography group if you obtain for me one work permit.
Good luck and next week will to go to Uckraine to study the pripet marshes and the przedmiascie of Kiev.
Good luck in the Ukraine, watch out for that wind blowing down from Chernobyl.
Any chance of seeing that poem without obtaining you a work permit, I know a bloke who does dodgy MOTs but I think Home Office documentation is out of his league.
hello
I will to send to you in one weeks my poem Stacja Pomp Numer Cztery but forst to the translator!
I have also one very rare book on Kurzen przszyboszewski. this man was a Kasiubian fisherman who claim he communicate with ants nest through his mind!! Interested? Will exchange for any Maxwell as there is extensive cult of personality about this man in poland. In my coastal region "maxwellist" is an honourable term!
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